tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post116389458729874135..comments2024-01-03T07:56:32.311-05:00Comments on quaker oats live: the cross and the lynching treeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07488876505679035140noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post-23121272731620667292008-11-17T13:36:00.000-05:002008-11-17T13:36:00.000-05:00I appreciate this post so very much. I am a Poet/A...I appreciate this post so very much. I am a Poet/Author, and my current project deals with poetry indicative of the antebellum south, and post reconstruction period, and the regional vernacular, colloquialisms and aphorisms of that time. I have made reference to Madame Billie Holiday's song, 'Strange Fruit', more particular, Poplar Trees, and the use of them as a lynching tool by white supremist. The amazing mostly unknown reality of this song is, that it was a poem written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish high school teacher from New York, who wrote it after learning of the news of two black men who were found lynched. As a truly devout Christian, I am compelled to pray <BR/>that we as a nation get get beyond the ugly truth of racial bigotry that is ingrained into our country's past. God is great, and the desire to reconcile will birth a much needed and greater racial bonding and meshing, on our multi-cultured American landscape.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post-15456628284013767942007-11-25T14:07:00.000-05:002007-11-25T14:07:00.000-05:00Thanks for your observations and conviction. I hop...Thanks for your observations and conviction. I hope that one day we can all press past these barriers and into the arms of our one Father God. Blessings.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618204172467905671noreply@blogger.com